sword case
Report a Mistake- Object Number 20020115-017
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- Date Made 1952-1966
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Armament accessory
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1952/01/01
- Latest 1966/12/31
- Materials Cotton
- Service Component Royal Canadian Navy
- Measurements Length 98.0 cm, Width 15.2 cm
- Caption C. Anthony Law (1916 - 1996)
- Additional Information Commander Anthony Law, DSC, RCN was one of Canada's most notable naval official war artists of the Second World War. He was unique in that he served as a naval officer throughout the conflict and in the period after the war. He retired in 1966. During his long and distinguished career as a naval officer he also worked as a professional artist. As a young man in the early war years, he served on a number of motor torpedo boats in the English Channel, and was involved in the action against the German battlecruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau in 1942. In this period he still found time to paint, usually when ashore during refits. In 1943, for example, he received a temporary assignment that enabled him to record some of Canada's more notable vessels, including HMCS Haida, Chaudière, Huron, and Restigouche. The Canadian War Museum collection includes some exuberant sketches of Law's shipmates, the vessels on which he served, and the ports he visited during this period.